As most of you have noticed, when you press the wrong key, when an error dialog pops up or when you use volume control, you hear a beep. After doing this a couple of times, that beep can get quite annoying. Therefore, in this tutorial, I will show you how to disable it in Windows 7, to make sure it remains silent and it doesn't bother you anymore. As you will see, there are two ways you can do this, both methods being relatively simple.

Even though I initially liked Windows 7's startup sound, after a few weeks of using it, it became annoying. Like many things in life, something you hear or do often becomes boring and then annoying. I'm pretty sure that, just like me, many of our readers will want to disable it as some point. Therefore, in this tutorial, I'll show how to do just that: how to disable Windows 7's startup sound. And, for when you want to have it back, I'll show also how to enable it back again.

One of the very few problems I have with Vodafone Romania is the fact that they do not provide proper software and driver support for mobile internet users. I have a Huawei E220 USB modem which doesn't get recognized by Windows 7 and I cannot use it to connect to the Internet. At this moment, Vodafone doesn't seem to have a software & firmware upgrade for it so that it works on Windows 7. After a bit of digging I managed to find a solution which works for Windows 7 and Windows Vista on both 32 and 64-bit versions. If you have the same issues, click on read more to find out how to fix them.